Live Piracy & Armed Robbery Report 2018

Live Piracy & Armed Robbery Report 2018

id

1552

date time

2018-01-31

Attack Number:

017-18

Date:

Type of Vessel :

Bulk Carrier

Attack Posn Map :

Location detail:

Kutubdia Anchorage

Narrations:

30.01.2018: 2200 UTC: Posn: 21:48N – 091:48E, Kutubdia Anchorage, Bangladesh.
Five robbers armed with knives boarded an anchored bulk carrier. They threatened the Duty AB, who managed to escape and raise the alarm. Seeing the alerted crew, the robbers escaped with stolen ship’s stores. The incident was reported to Bangladesh Coast Guard who boarded the ship for investigation. Later, the Coast Guard managed to recover the stolen stores and delivered to the ship.